The names of those known to have been sentenced to death on political grounds by civil courts since 3 March 1978 are as follows. Of the 14 known death sentences, two have been commuted to life imprisonment on submission of petition for clemency to the regime's President.
1. MAJODZI MUZAYA (23) Sentenced 17 March 1978. Salisbury High Court. Appeal dismissed 14 June 1978. Petition for clemency submitted.
2. DANIEL NDHLELA (ZAPU official) Sentenced 10 April 1978. Special Court, Bulawayo. Appeal dismissed 29 May 1978. Petition for clemency submitted.
3. JOHN MUREWA (20) Sentenced 13 April 1978. Bulawayo High Court. Appeal dismissed end May/beginning June. Petition for clemency submitted.
4. SAVEOUS CHINGWE HOVE (50) Sentenced 1 June 1978. Salisbury High Court. Appeal dismissed 11 September 1978.
5. PIAISON NDHLOVU Sentenced 28 July 1978. Salisbury High Court. Appeal dismissed 18 September 1978. Petition for clemency successful in having the death sentence commuted to life imprisonment on 8 December 1978.
6. AUGUSTINE NYERENYERE (26) Sentenced 4 August 1978. Salisbury High Court. Appeal dismissed 19 September 1978. Petition for clemency believed to have been submitted.
7. AGGREY NYERENYERE (23) Sentenced 4 August 1978. Salisbury High Court. Appeal dismissed 19 September 1978. Petition for clemency believed to have been submitted.
8. REUBEN DONGA (22) Sentenced 23 August 1978. Salisbury High Court. Appeal dismissed beginning October 1978. Petition for clemency submitted; refused January 1979.
9. DANIEL MOYO Sentenced September 1978. Appeal dismissed 22 November 1978.
10. PETER CHIKONO Sentenced 2 October 1978. Appeal dismissed 23 November. Petition submitted; sentence commuted to life imprisonment 26 January 1979.
11. WALTER JÉLEMANI NCUBE (21) Sentenced 2 October 1978. Bulawayo High Court. Appeal dismissed. Petition for clemency believed to have been submitted.
12. JOHN M. MASEKO Sentenced 6 October 1978. Bulawayo High Court. Appeal dismissed 25 January 1978. Petition for clemency submitted.
13. AMBROSE NDHLOVU Sentenced 6 October 1978. Bulawayo High Court. Appeal dismissed 25 January 1978. Petition for clemency submitted.
(For further details of the above, see FOCUS 16-20).
14. GEORGE MOYO Sentenced to death in the High Court in February 1979 on conviction of possessing arms of war; committing acts of terrorism or sabotage by destroying a bus belonging to the Rhodesian Omnibus Company and property belonging to an African Council and attacking security force vehicles; and the murder of an African police reservist killed in an ambush. The accused was arrested during a contact in the Lupane area and was described as a member of ZPRA. Appeal noted.
